200 films, 50 words, #18

The Mitchells Against The Machines, dir. Michael Rianda (2021), Stepmum-in-law’s, Telford (Netflix), 25/2/23.

Apr 9, 2023

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God, I wanted to despise the wisecracking quirky teen desperate to escape her family. But the slow creep towards robot apocalypse had a genuine Threadsy horror about it… and her clan prevailed. Katie left for university. Cut: me, 18, alone on a pavement, our Volvo disappearing in slow motion. Theirs.

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